The holistic renovation of existing buildings is nowadays acknowledged as an essential and urgent action to reduce the environmental impact and increase the resilience of [...]

This paper reports on the results of an ongoing Research Project aimed at computing the risk of collapse in code-conforming new Italian buildings. A companion paper descr [...]

The seismic events which hit Central Italy on 24 August, October 26 and October 30 2016 have caused casualties and major damage mostly to buildings and architectural heri [...]

As a consequence of the large number of masonry buildings and their important historical value, there is an ongoing effort to investigate their structural behaviour. This [...]

This paper reports on the damage observed after the recent April 6, 2009 earthquake that hit the city of L’Aquila, in the Abruzzi Region, in Italy. The main shock measu [...]

This paper reports the results of the seismic vulnerability assessment of an existing reinforced concrete highway bridge, “Della Valle viaduct” on Tollway 24, built i [...]

The study of historical building goes beyond the modern principles of earthquake engineering and requires on one side a good knowledge of the building techniques at the t [...]